North Korea has been conducting missile launch tests since the end of September, and launched several missiles between November 2 and 5. This is the second in a series of interviews with experts on North Korean affairs about the situation and future trends in North Korea, which has conducted a series of missile launch tests. The experts pointed out that there was a visible appearance of North Korea’s strategy to exploit the internal situation in South Korea. We will explain this point.
First, we will describe what we heard about the second reason for the missile launches as described by the Korean affairs experts.
One factor to consider in North Korea’s successive missile launches is the “South-South conflict” (the struggle between pro-North Korean forces and right-wing forces in South Korea), which is deeply rooted within South Korea. One of North Korea’s aims is to “launch missiles to agitate the South-South conflict.
By repeatedly conducting missile tests, North Korea is trying to instill a strong sense of fear among the South Korean people that the danger of a Korean War has increased due to the Yun Suk-yeol administration’s policy toward North Korea, and at the same time, it is trying to fuel the anti-government struggle among the leftist forces in South Korea, especially the pro-North Korean forces. (The above is an explanation from a Korean affairs expert.)
The following is an explanation of the ideological conflicts within Korea as described by the experts. The tragedy begins with the creation of South and North Korea on the Korean peninsula after World War II. North Korea is a country that advocates socialism and communism, and there is one major proposition there. It is a revolution. Revolution sounds good, but in reality it is a blood-soaked civil war or foreign invasion, an extremely violent ideology that can lead to war. Immediately after its independence, North Korea has been trying to provoke a revolution called the “red reunification” of South Korea, and has established such agencies as the “Foreign Liaison Department” and the “Unification Front Department” for the purpose of “red reunification” of South Korea. One of the revolutions carried out in this way was the Korean War. As a result, an armistice agreement was signed and the two Koreas remain divided by the 38th parallel.
North Korea has been contemplating a military invasion of South Korea since the Korean War and has built up pro-North Korean organizations such as the Workers’ Party of Korea’s underground party in South Korea. In response, South Korea would continue to maintain a military posture that would arrest even innocent people in order to exterminate domestic spies.
As a result, student activist groups that advocate a break from the military dictatorship in South Korea have become active in North Korean ideology. A large number of South Korean citizens who hold these ideas have become like a reserve army of North Korean agents. Incidentally, Yun Mika, who has been in the news over the comfort women issue, is a hardcore pro-North Korean figure, rumored to have once had an audience with President Kim Il Sung. Yun is now a member of the South Korean National Assembly, and is so ideologically tainted by North Korea that even pro-North Korea has permeated South Korean politics, and she cannot lightly claim to be pro-Japan.
As a result, when North Korea launches a series of missiles and “contingency on the Korean Peninsula” approaches, pro-North Korean forces in South Korea drag the administration down with their “war protests” against the South Korean government, creating a trend of activities on behalf of North Korea.
An expert on Korean affairs expressed the view that the latest missile test was conducted to “fuel the anti-government struggle of pro-North Korean forces in South Korea,” but it is no exaggeration to say that the missile launch has become a switch that awakens latent North Korean forces in South Korea.
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